# Staff Full-Stack Engineer

**Company:** [April](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/april)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $220k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** React, Vue, Angular, GCP, AWS, Microservices, REST APIs, gRPC, Kubernetes, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-06-12

> Lead design and development of scalable full-stack systems at a tax intelligence platform. Requires 8+ years of experience with distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and modern frontend frameworks.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead critical, cross-functional engineering initiatives from design to development and deployment, ensuring quality and scalability
- Participate in technical decision-making and knowledge sharing across multiple teams
- Collaborate with Product, UX, and other stakeholders to deliver seamless and data-driven experiences
- Evaluate and introduce new tools, technologies, and practices that raise the bar for engineering excellence
- Guide by example - service ownership, observability, and operational best practices across the engineering organization
- Promote a culture of high standards, clean code, testing, and continuous improvement

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, including 2+ years as a senior, staff or principal-level role
- Proven experience designing and building distributed systems at scale in cloud-native environments (GCP or AWS)
- Deep expertise in backend technologies, including microservices, event-driven architectures, and REST/gRPC APIs
- Strong hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular) and full-stack engineering practices
- Fluency in system design and architecture - capable of balancing trade-offs between scalability, performance, and developer experience
- Track record of shaping technical direction and elevating team capabilities
- Passion for building high-impact, customer-facing products that are data-rich and intuitive
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work cross-functionally and influence without authority

## Bonus Points
- Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers in production environments
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)

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